After Rain

William Trevor

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and has won many major literary prizes, including the Whitbread award for The Children Of Dynmouth (1976) and Fools Of Fortune (1983); the Hawthorneden Prize for The Old Boys (1964) and The Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award for The Silence In The Garden (1989). His seven volumes of short stories were published together in 1992 as The Collected Stories and he has also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Felicia's Journey won The Sunday Express Prize and The Whitbread Book of The Year. He was awarded an honorary CBE and is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters.

After Rain is published by Viking

Reading In The DarkSeamus DeaneSeamus Deane was born in Derry and educated at Queen's University, Belfast and at Cambridge. From 1969-80 he lectured in English at University College, Dublin. He was Professor of Modern English and American Literature at UCD from1980-1993. He is currently Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame University, Indiana. He is the author of Celtic Revivals: Essays In Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980. A Short History Of Irish Literature and The French Revolution And Enlightenment In English Literature 1789-1832. He is general editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. He has published four collections of poetry.Eureka Street

Robert McLiam Wilson

Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. He read English at Cambridge but left early to write his first novel, Ripley Bogle, published in 1989, which won the Rooney Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hughes Award, and the Irish Book Award. His second novel, Manfred's Pain, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He is also the author of a non-fiction work, The Dispossessed, with Donovan Wylie. He has recently completed a documentary for Channel 4 on the baseball in Irish history. McLiam Wilson lives in Belfast.